Colonial Despatches

John Lemon was a Métis man who owned twenty-nine acres of land in Victoria in 1855.1 He was registered as an owner in land-district section 18A.2 James Douglas awarded Lemon twenty additional acres of land along Portage Inlet in 1859 as recognition for Lemon's work as a Victoria Voltigeur which were the first official Police force in the history of BC.3

• 1. District of Saanich, Victoria District Land Sections - First Registered Owner, Saanich Archives; Colvile to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 16 April 1855, 3578, CO 305/6, 247.
• 2. District of Saanich, Victoria District Land Sections.
• 3. Métis BC Nation, Victoria Voltigeurs, Métis Provincial Council of British Columbia.